Hospitals and Health Systems
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Schaeffer Center Fellow Wins Top Student Award of the American Society of Health Economists
Eunhae Shin, 2019 USC doctoral degree graduate and USC Schaeffer Center pre-doctoral fellow, received the 2019 Student Paper Award from the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) at the society’s annual meeting in Washington, DC on June 24.
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Value-Based Contracting in Healthcare: What Is It and How Can It Be Achieved?
Value-based contracts must incentivize the clinical decision maker, usually the physician, to allocate treatment based on both price and value. Changing certain elements in the financing system could create an environment for successful value-based contracting without having to reform the entire system.
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Hospital Productivity Trends: Implications for Medicare Payment Policy
On June 25, 2019, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy hosted a conference on hospital productivity trends and their implications for Medicare policy on hospital payment rate updates.
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Reverse Reference Pricing: Rewarding Patients For Reducing Medicare Costs
Neeraj Sood and Christopher Whaley write that it is time for Medicare to apply the lessons learned by private insurers to incentivize price shopping by patients.
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Comments on the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019
Experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy provide comments on the Senate HELP committee’s latest bipartisan attempt to lower healthcare costs.
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How Does Option Value Affect the Potential Cost-Effectiveness of a Treatment? The Case of Ipilimumab for Metastatic Melanoma
Innovations that extend life can generate option value and cost of experiencing future technologies. Schaeffer postdoc Meng Li developed generalizable approaches to estimating option value in cost-effectiveness analysis.
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Comments on the No Surprises Act
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts provide comments on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s recently proposed legislation to address surprise medical billing.
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Allocating Outreach Resources for Disease Control in a Dynamic Population with Information Spread
Infected individuals must be aware of disease symptoms to seek care, so outreach and education programs are critical to disease control.
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Padula Receives ISPOR Honor for Research on Pressure Injury Prevention
William Padula was honored at the Annual ISPOR Awards Program with the 2019 Award for Excellence in Application of Health Economics and Outcomes Research.
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Do Health Insurance and Hospital Market Concentration Influence Hospital Patients’ Experience of Care?
The findings from this study add to the evidence on the harms of hospital consolidation but suggest that insurer consolidation may improve patient experience.
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